Apprentice Jordan Mallyon will join Aquanita Racing on a three-month loan from trainer Mike Moroney.
Mallyon, who still has a 2kg claim in the metropolitan area, said he would benefit from more opportunities over the winter months by being attached to Aquanita Racing.
Aquanita trainers Tony Vasil and Robert Smerdon have 115 horses in work at Caulfield.
The grandson of former top jockey Mick Mallyon is making a name for himself having ridden nearly 80 winners.
This season he has notched up a total of 19 winners, six of them in town.
“I’ve ridden for Tony Vasil’s foreman Trent Pennuto and we had a chat about it and it looked like a good move for me over winter,” Mallyon said.
“I really appreciate Aquanita taking me on and I hope all goes well.”
Vasil said he’d been watching Mallyon ride for several months.
“I think with his pedigree and a good work ethic he can be a top apprentice and make his mark in the senior ranks,” he said.
He will start with Aquanita as soon as the paperwork is finalised with Racing Victoria.
Mallyon has five rides at the Sandown meeting on Wednesday including the Pennuto-trained Mayneda Strategy in the Apex Steel Plate (1800m) and the Moroney-trained Brillanconi, a last-start Echuca winner, in the speedcafe.com Plate (1600m).
He will ride Beau Vallon, a new addition to the Mat Ellerton and Simon Zahra stable, in the Norton 360 Sandown Challenge (1000m).
Beau Vallon was transferred from the Charlie Goggin stable after a narrow defeat by She Likes To Rock over 1000m, with Mallyon aboard, at Flemington on April 25.
Mallyon will also ride the Ray Besanko-trained Blooded in the Wilson Security Patrols Cup (1300m) and the Wayne Nichols-trained Dad Knows Best in the Payce Plate (1000m).
Meanwhile, Lisa Cropp will be out to build on her tally of six city winners she has ridden for the Moroney stable since April 30.
On Wednesday, she rides Oneman Wolfpack in the Sienna And Olivia Cup (1800m), Marheta in the Apex Steel Plate and Viallico in the speedcafe.com Plate.
Cropp won on Oneman Wolfpack last start when the Iglesia three-year-old scored in a 1600m maiden at Bendigo by 2-1/4 lengths on May 6.
The track is rated a heavy (9) and the rail is out 14m for the entire circuit.
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